Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, and commentaries.
Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.
Key features of this best-selling textbook include:
• coverage of the major historical, linguistic, and sociopolitical developments in the English language from the start of the seventeenth century to the present day;
• exploration of the current debates in Global Englishes, relating to its uses as a post-colonial language in Asia and Africa, a mother tongue in the US, UK, and Antipodes, and lingua franca across the globe, with a strong emphasis on China;
• new material on Latin America, English as a lingua franca, and English medium instruction;
• a range of texts, data, and examples drawn from emails, tweets, and newspapers;
• readings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry Widdowson, and Lesley Milroy;
• updated online support material providing additional materials that are closely linked to each unit of the book.
Global Englishes, Fourth Edition provides a dynamic and engaging introduction to this fascinating topic and is essential reading for all students studying global Englishes more broadly, English as a Lingua Franca specifically, and the factors involved in the spread of English in the world today.
List of figures and tables Preface to the fourth edition Acknowledgements Unit 1 The historical, social, and political context 1A Introduction to the historical, social, and political context 1B The legacy of colonialism 1C Postcolonial Africa and North America 1D The discourses of postcolonialism Unit 2 Who speaks English today? 2A Who speaks English today? 2B The English Today debate 2C Teaching and testing global Englishes 2D Who owns English today? Unit 3 English as an international lingua franca 3A English as an international lingua franca 3B The nature of ELF communication 3C The evolution of thinking about ELF 3D Looking ahead Unit 4 English and ELF in global education 4A English and ELF in global education 4B Towards the ELF-informed ELT classroom 4C Problematising English in EMI higher education 4D The end of ‘international’ standardized English language testing? Unit 5 Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world 5A Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world 5B Diversity across the Anglophone space 5C Standards across channels 5D Is language (still) power in the Inner Circle? Unit 6 Variation across postcolonial Englishes 6A Variation across postcolonial Englishes 6B ‘Legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ offspring of English 6C ‘Sub’-varieties of English: the example of singlish 6D From language to literature Unit 7 English in Asia, Europe, and Latin America 7A English in Asia, Europe, and Latin America 7B En route to new linguistic practices 7C Asian Englishes: focus on India, Hong Kong, and China 7D Attitudes to non-native Englishes in China Unit 8 The future of global Englishes 8A Introduction to the future of global Englishes 8B Possible future scenarios 8C Language killer or language promoter? 8D Looking ahead Further reading References Glossarial index
Jennifer Jenkins is Emeritus Professor of Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, where she was Founding Director of the Centre for Global Englishes research. Sonia Morán Panero is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton and a founding member of the Centre for Global Englishes research.
Reviews for Global Englishes: A Resource Book for Students
"""This new and revised edition of Global Englishes lives up to the success of previous editions, with the authors outlining a concern to expand the scope of themes in the area as a whole, offering the reader an even richer material and, in many aspects, brilliantly locally situated. Throughout the manuscript, we come across themes and issues anchored in sensitive grounds which stimulate, among many reflections, a critical view in relation to the political, ideological and pedagogical implications of the expansion of English around the world, its condition as a global lingua franca, contemplating, for instance, the production of knowledge in the field in commonly invisible contexts such as Latin America. An excellent and always timely resource for teachers, students and teacher trainers that is renewed and will certainly serve as a reference not only for differentiated ELT practices, but also for the investigative work of researchers in all parts of the planet."" Sávio Siqueira, Bahia Federal University, Brazil"
